US-based AT&T and Norwegian firm Telenor have expressed interest in challenging the PLDT-Globe duopoly, the country’s acting Telecommunications chief said on Thursday.

“We are not yet sure if they will submit a bid [but] ... they’re interested, so they’re here,” Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Officer-in-Charge Eliseo Rio told reporters following a public hearing on draft rules for the third telco search.

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